CHAPTER 1067: 1144: REALLY DID QUITE SOME HARM

"Is it possible?" Dong Huiying raised an eyebrow. This answer was truly subtle.

Yi Ran let out two dry laughs. "In fact, I initially didn’t understand why she locked me up for half a year. Later, when I was in Dajin, I kept paying attention to the situation here. It turns out, when I was imprisoned, she was poisoned by someone as well. The suspected poisoner was Xiao Shiyi’s subordinate, and she was in a coma for more than half a year. It wasn’t until my benefactor sent me out of Jiangnan that the poison was resolved, but by then, I had already gone far away. Maybe... she was lashing out at my benefactor in anger?"

Dong Huiying let out a chuckle. "That truly harms others deeply," she mimicked Shu Yu’s manner, giving Yi Ran a sidelong glance with a half-smile. Yi Ran, already feeling guilty, trembled even more when she glanced at him.

After that, Yi Ran straightened his back and said, "But the situation is different now! I rushed here from Dajin for my benefactor. I have old grievances with her, and the reason I hadn’t acted against her before was that I wanted to use her to help me find my benefactor. Now that I’ve reunited with my benefactor, some things need to be recalculated!"

Dong Huiying chuckled, "I’ll be waiting to see."

Yi Ran: "..."

Why does it feel like he’s a fraud? He’s really not putting on airs, he genuinely means it, really!!

***

That night, Yi Ran, filled with depression, couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to sleep, but... On one hand, reuniting with the life-saving benefactor stirred his emotions greatly. On the other hand, reopening the wounds in his heart left him restless. And, most importantly!

Could it be she’s angry with him?

After all, he is the source of the trouble, Shu Yu no longer plays the qin, no longer plays for him, no longer lulls him to sleep!!

Without Shu Yu’s qin music, even if he wanted to sleep, he couldn’t, seriously!!

So, the depressed Yi Ran could only sit miserably in the corner, drawing circles and staying up until dawn.

***

The next day, when Dong Huiying woke up, she saw that the flowers in the vase had been replaced with a fresh bouquet, surely picked by Shu Yu this morning.

Shu Yu seems to be a person who strictly keeps promises. She remembered Shu Yu once said that if she liked flowers, he would pick them for her, as long as she didn’t accept flowers from anyone else. Fearing that she would be saddened by withered blossoms, he would always replace the unwilted flowers when she wasn’t looking, so her flowers were always fresh and vibrant.

By his nature, he should be particularly impatient with such things. Firstly, picking flowers inevitably involves touching the leaves and stems. Secondly, the morning flowers are often covered in dew. He is someone who would fret endlessly over a drop of clear water on his clothes, let alone dew.

Yet, a promise is a promise, and even if he didn’t like doing such things, he still adhered to his commitments.

She once said that he didn’t need to pick those flowers for her anymore, to which he retorted sarcastically.

She asked, "Why, since you’re obviously so impatient?"

"I like seeing you smile."

Just for the sake of seeing you smile, even if I don’t enjoy such things at all, but because you like it, no matter how foolish it seems, if it can bring you even a little joy and make you a bit happier, it’s worth it.

So, her refusal was ineffective, her persuasion futile, and he still continued to pick fresh flowers every two or three days to put in her vase.

This was the most romantic thing he did for her, and within this simple romance was his abundant affection and love for her.